The for-profit Utah prison company that proposed building an immigration jail in Evanston, Wyo., has withdrawn its interest, but a Uinta County, Wyo., commissioner says a different prison company will keep the project alive.
County officials were notified of the development in the contentious initiative weeks ago, but chose not to issue a drafted press release to notify the public, according to communications provided to WyoFile, a nonprofit Wyoming news organization.
The federal government officially requested proposals for a 250-500-bed immigrant detention center for people awaiting court hearings in Utah’s immigration court in West Valley City last month, two years after city and county officials passed resolutions to support Utah based Management & Training Corporation’s proposal.